註釋 "On July 12, 1520, Germany's most celebrated artist, Albrecht Dürer, left Nuremberg for the Netherlands, where he was to remain for more than a year. It was a business trip; Dürer hoped to have his pension confirmed by the new young emperor, Charles V, and to find new markets for his woodcuts and engravings. Details of the trip are preserved in his famous 'journal,' in which Dürer carefully noted expenses and receipts, commented on the people he met and the monuments and works of art he admired, and recorded an extraordinary variety of passing sights that captured his imagination--a religious procession in Antwerp, a hoard of pre-Columbian treasures from Mexico, a whale stranded in Zeeland. The journal reveals much of the psychology of the great artist and is a mine of fascinating information about the art world of his time." --inside book jacket 